When She Woke

(a Lambda Literary Award Finalist and a Best Book of 2011 for Booklist, BookPage, and the Huffington Post) This second novel from the Bellwether Prize–winning author of Mudbound reimagines The Scarlet Letter in the story of a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate a near-future America where the line between church and state has been eradicated. Hannah is a Red, a convict whose skin has been permanently "chromed" to reflect her crime: the murder of her unborn child.

"In the chillingly credible tomorrowland of Jordan's second novel, Roe v. Wade has been overturned, abortion has been criminalized in 42 states and a vigilante group known as the Fist of Christ brutalizes violators.... Jordan's feverishly conceived dystopia holds its own alongside the dark inventions of Margaret Atwood and Ray Bradbury."—NYTBR